halsey minor

26 commentsIt's official. Halsey Minor has burned up his fortune, once estimated at nearly $400 million.A spate of vanity investments and the litigation that followed appear to have pushed the high-flying...

2 commentsAs Williamsburg-area officials prepare one Halsey Minor mansion for sale and as the embattled internet financier himself tries to unload his San Francisco version of the Petit Trianon along with his...

21 commentsHalsey Minor has filed an "affidavit of indigence" in a Georgia court, another sign of the embattled millionaire's dwindling fortune. But has he really gone the way of squatters camping in his...

6 commentsLast September, lawyer Betty Shumener assured the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Lynchburg that her firm knew what it was doing when it asked to become the counsel to West Coast brainiac Halsey Minor when...

15 commentsAs he promised to do, internet financier and halted hotel-builder Halsey Minor has placed the LLC he created for owning a historic Williamsburg-area mansion into bankruptcy, thus thwarting efforts to...

18 commentsMinor agreed to pay the Foundation over $17 million for the historic estate.
PHOTO BY MELISSA WILKINS
Claiming that he withheld his mortgage payments to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation as part...

26 commentsMinor and Danielson at the 2008 groundbreaking. FILE PHOTO BY JAY KUHLMANN
Three years after ground was broken and two years after lawsuits began flying, the towering skeleton of the planned...

18 commentsMinor and Danielson during happier times at the groundbreaking of the Landmark.
FILE PHOTO BY JAY KUHLMANN
Back in February, some may have scoffed when liquidity-challenged business tycoon Halsey...

59 commentsLooming presence: Mayor Dave Norris at the dedication ceremony for the Mall re-bricking project last year.
FILE PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIR
City officials had once hoped the Landmark Hotel would attract...

29 commentsMinor just won a big one.
FILE PHOTO BY JAY KUHLMANN
After a two-week trial in a federal court in San Francisco, jurors have awarded Internet millionaire and Charlottesville hotel builder Halsey...

6 commentsThis one painting by Richard Prince brought $6.5 million, as well as compliments about Minor's eye for art.
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The contemporary collection of embattled art collector/hotel maker Halsey...

13 commentsNurse in Hollywood #4, says the auction catalog [pdf], "is not only the most important painting from this series but is also one of Prince’s most glamorous, direct, and stunning ones."
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11 commentsMinor, Danielson, and the Landmark.
PHOTOS BY JAY KUHLMANN, HAWES SPENCER
Halsey Minor, the CNet-founding millionaire whose Midas touch has been tarnished by a series of setbacks including the...

19 commentsMinor could lose "Andy Warhol and Members of the Factory," shown here, as well as "Sexes," by former Virginia Beach skater punk Ryan McGinness.
PHOTOS BY DENNIS HOPPER, JAY KUHLMANN
Internet tycoon...

22 commentsThe Tyvek tower flaps in the breeze on the day of the hearing.
PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER; FILE PHOTOS JAY KUHLMANN
The tussle over the unfinished Landmark Hotel entered a new chapter Wednesday, as...